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...months ago the Standard got in even hotter water when it launched a campaign to kick John Strachey out of the government because he had once been a party-liner. When Strachey was appointed Secretary of State for War the same day that Spy Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison, the Standard headlined: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. For Coupling Fuchs and Strachey, the British press jumped on the Standard so hard that the doughty Beaver began to worry. At the start, he and Gunn had both agreed that the campaign was a fine idea, but the Beaver...
...more recent months, as the cold war got hotter, a Secretary of Defense might justifiably have asked for another examination of the policy of economy. Louis Johnson, Forrestal's successor, finally did, but only after he was prodded into it and then in a not-very-loud-voice (he asked for $350 million more). Up to that point the only sounds from Louis Johnson's office had been the swish of the ax and Louis Johnson's reassuring roars that he was simply cutting off fat, never touching a muscle...
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Hans Hotter, baritone; Viorica Ursuleac, soprano; George Hann, bass; Karl Ostertag, tenor; Franz Klarwein, tenor; Luise Wilier, contralto; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Clemens Krauss conducting; Mercury, 8 sides LP). First complete recording of Wagner's early opera. Performance and recording: good...
Despite the Communists' protestations of pacifism, Berlin's war of nerves waxed hotter & hotter-even though Whitsunday was still seven weeks away. Said one Allied official: "It's like having a fortuneteller announce that you're going to die in exactly seven weeks. You can try to laugh it off, but you'll be pretty nervous until the fatal day is safely over." Whatever tune the Communists played, it was obvious that Berlin was going to be very warm...
President Truman's appointment of Sherman Minton to replace Rutledge made hotter a controversy already started by the President's naming of Clark to take Frank Murphy's place. Both Murphy and Rutledge had been strong "liberals," while their replacements had no such public record. Politicians, lawyers, and writers began to wonder, in print, how these appointments would affect Court policy, with many important decisions, including a large number on civil rights, pending...